Music Quotes - Page 58

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

Music is what I do; Christ is why I do it.

Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around.

Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the gospel. After men receive the truth, songs of praise to Deity help to sanctify and cleanse their souls.

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.